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(tl;dw: FCC wants to change laws to potentially allow ISPs to slow Internet traffic to sites that don't pay them 💸 ). He urges people to take action by commenting on the FCC proposal by visiting [gofccyourself.com](gofccyourself.com), which redirects you to https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/proceedings?q=name:((17-108)) and then there is a scary form you have to fill out to leave a public comment on the proposal to change net neutrality rules. \r\n\r\nI didn't really know what to say off the top of my head, so I googled around for help and found [How to comment on the FCC’s proposal to revoke net neutrality](https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/27/how-to-comment-on-the-fccs-proposal-to-revoke-net-neutrality/). \r\n\r\nThis bit drew my attention: \r\n> All the comments will be looked at in one way or another, but substantial ones that address specific points in the proposal will almost certainly get a little more attention. \r\n\r\nThe [proposal](https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-344614A1.pdf) is 58 pages long!!! I seriously doubt that people without some level of subject matter expertise are going to read through it. But I would love to have a version where I could see annotations or even just concise summaries (tldr's) by subject matter experts. \r\n\r\nI think this could go a couple different directions, so breaking out a few problems / ideas below. \r\n\r\n## Problem Statements\r\n1. Public proposals are long, boring, and full of details, and therefore hard for an average voter to understand and interpret. \r\n2. The format for collecting feedback on these proposals seems to uh... suck. It's a multi-step complicated process to leave a comment, it seems super government-y and formal, and ...\r\n3. It feels like a black hole, ie it's not clear to me how my feedback will contribute to the discussion. I'd like to see a more public discussion board, with crowd curation of high quality discourse. \r\n\r\n## Ideas / applications\r\n1. How about a mash up of google docs style commenting directly on the document, combined with the discussion tools of [discourse](https://www.discourse.org/features), and the curation system of Reddit 😁  The wikipedia of public proposals. \r\n2. Provide a Quora like platform for SME's to create tl;dr's of public proposals. Probably less possible but potentially fun, could we use deep learning to automatically summarize? [[1]](https://www.quora.com/Has-Deep-Learning-been-applied-to-automatic-text-summarization-successfully)\r\n3. I feel like a tool along these lines could be useful as well for *consumer advocacy* -- Terms of Service share a lot of similar characteristics to public proposals, long, full of legalese, etc. \r\n\r\n## Open questions\r\n* Does anyone know of a tool like this? I expected a top hit when I googled \"summaries for public proposals\" or \"annotation tool for public documents\" but I didn't find much. \r\n* Any other potential ideas / applications / related problems? \r\n* Is anyone interested in scoping this to a hackathon sized project? \r\n"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/sketch-city/project-ideas/issues/comments/302242718","html_url":"https://github.com/sketch-city/project-ideas/issues/108#issuecomment-302242718","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/sketch-city/project-ideas/issues/108","id":302242718,"user":{"login":"LawExplorer","id":25470513,"avatar_url":"https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/25470513?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/LawExplorer","html_url":"https://github.com/LawExplorer","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/LawExplorer/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/LawExplorer/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/LawExplorer/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/LawExplorer/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/LawExplorer/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/LawExplorer/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/LawExplorer/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/LawExplorer/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/LawExplorer/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2017-05-17T21:55:13Z","updated_at":"2017-05-17T21:55:13Z","body":"The availability government information in plain language is a big issue, and a number of resources are available in print and online.  One of those is [PlainLanguage.gov](http://www.plainlanguage.gov/)."}}
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